Roslyn
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I have always liked Beatrice and tended to defend her, but even I am beginning to have uncharitable thoughts about her. Having said that, I do think she is a victim of circumstance to a large extent.
It certainly doesn't help her that whoever is responsible for what is stated on her father's web page is so dense as to allow it to say she works full time. Such a comment invites criticism of her when it is patently clear that that is far from the truth. You'd think Andrew, of all people, would be cautious about such things. But the RF's PR machine seems to have slackened off a lot in recent years. They can't even manage to keep the Court Circular updated and accurate anymore.
Beatrice was made an HRH when she was born, and grew up with it, apparently expecting to do work for The Firm. But then things changed. Her grandmother decided Beatrice was not going to be a full time Royal, so she had to work. But I think she made some bad choices about work. For some reason she ended up doing a university course that did not suit her for the type of job she has been applying for since she left university. I don't know what happened there; whether it was an absence of or bad career advice when she was choosing her subjects for her senior high school years or at the time she was selecting university courses, but something went wrong somewhere. Maybe she just changed her mind or realised the history courses were a mistake. And perhaps there is a problem in the workplace when she turns up to a job with other interns; perhaps she doesn't fit in as one of them. That might be why she doesn't last in a job very long. But if there were problems in the workplace, perhaps she should have done a bit of brainstorming and nutted out a career path that did not involve having to go the intern route. But, then again, maybe to date she hasn't really made an real effort to do the job for which she has been engaged. This is all speculation though. None of us knows what actually happened, but the longer it goes on, the more we suspect that Beatrice just doesn't want to work but wants to pretend she does.
Lots of us end up in jobs we don't like or for which we are not suited, but most of us have to hang in there because we have invested several years getting to that place and we can't afford to go back and start again. Not so Beatrice. She can afford to leave and go back to square 1 and do something else, and it seems she might have retrained. I hope that now she gets a job in the US and sticks to it the way Eugenie has done.
I think we are prepared to accept an HRH princess who doesn't need to work and who goes on lots of holidays, but we do expect them to be honest about it and not pretend to be working full time when they aren't, and we also expect them to do something constructive with their life. If she doesn't have to work, good luck to her. She has every right to spend her life on a perpetual holiday if she can afford it, but if she chooses to do that she will pay a price for it. We might accept she has the right to do it and might envy her, but we do not admire people who live that way.
Time to fish or cut bait, Beatrice. Show us your true colours.
It certainly doesn't help her that whoever is responsible for what is stated on her father's web page is so dense as to allow it to say she works full time. Such a comment invites criticism of her when it is patently clear that that is far from the truth. You'd think Andrew, of all people, would be cautious about such things. But the RF's PR machine seems to have slackened off a lot in recent years. They can't even manage to keep the Court Circular updated and accurate anymore.
Beatrice was made an HRH when she was born, and grew up with it, apparently expecting to do work for The Firm. But then things changed. Her grandmother decided Beatrice was not going to be a full time Royal, so she had to work. But I think she made some bad choices about work. For some reason she ended up doing a university course that did not suit her for the type of job she has been applying for since she left university. I don't know what happened there; whether it was an absence of or bad career advice when she was choosing her subjects for her senior high school years or at the time she was selecting university courses, but something went wrong somewhere. Maybe she just changed her mind or realised the history courses were a mistake. And perhaps there is a problem in the workplace when she turns up to a job with other interns; perhaps she doesn't fit in as one of them. That might be why she doesn't last in a job very long. But if there were problems in the workplace, perhaps she should have done a bit of brainstorming and nutted out a career path that did not involve having to go the intern route. But, then again, maybe to date she hasn't really made an real effort to do the job for which she has been engaged. This is all speculation though. None of us knows what actually happened, but the longer it goes on, the more we suspect that Beatrice just doesn't want to work but wants to pretend she does.
Lots of us end up in jobs we don't like or for which we are not suited, but most of us have to hang in there because we have invested several years getting to that place and we can't afford to go back and start again. Not so Beatrice. She can afford to leave and go back to square 1 and do something else, and it seems she might have retrained. I hope that now she gets a job in the US and sticks to it the way Eugenie has done.
I think we are prepared to accept an HRH princess who doesn't need to work and who goes on lots of holidays, but we do expect them to be honest about it and not pretend to be working full time when they aren't, and we also expect them to do something constructive with their life. If she doesn't have to work, good luck to her. She has every right to spend her life on a perpetual holiday if she can afford it, but if she chooses to do that she will pay a price for it. We might accept she has the right to do it and might envy her, but we do not admire people who live that way.
Time to fish or cut bait, Beatrice. Show us your true colours.
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Yes, I agree. It's a sad comment on what it must be like to be one of the York princesses. It appears that they have to go into virtual exile to live a normal life. Otherwise, they are constantly being judged. No matter what they do or how they live, they are judged. They have no official roles, yet they're judged as though they're living off the public purse and filling themselves at the trough. They aren't politicians. They aren't on the Civil List. We have no idea what Princess Beatrice is going through on a personal level or what her real feelings are about things. I have the sense that if she did get married and involve herself in raising a family and doing charity work, there are still those who would call her a slacker if she didn't also have a paying job.
